The Anti Gift Guide

Sydney and I are friends. We take selfies together. We laugh together. We cuddle together. We go on walks together. We pick outfits together. We watch Gossip Girl together. We discuss politics together. We cook Trader Joes pasta together. We wander aimlessly around Brooklyn together. We also enjoy posting ridiculously overpriced, hideous fashion items on each other’s Facebook walls. Why do we do this, you ask? Mostly, to distract ourselves from our tremendous workload, and to annoy/entertain (???) our mutual friends on their news feeds.

This hobby has transformed into a critique of the fashion industry, which continually jacks up prices on useless, ugly shit that people don’t need. Our inboxes are constantly flooded with emails promoting festive “Gift Guides,” which usually cause us anxiety and a certain form of hilarity. Sydney and I have decided to create an anti gift guide, featuring some really ugly, expensive crap that you shouldn’t buy this season. This is our gift to you! Happy (not) shopping.

Sydney: For $3,000, you can look like a bird of paradise threw up on your head (Net-A-Porter, Philip Treacy, $2,855).

Hannah Gottlieb-Graham is a sophomore studying dance, art history and women's studies. In her spare time she enjoys writing articles for Surface Magazine and College Fashion, cooking vegetarian cuisine, gallery hopping, shooting film and making her own perfume. Her weaknesses are Wes Anderson and good champagne.
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